Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-03-22

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Ths pxineipai success Of the Prssi
dents In popaiAK estimation, has been
N temporizfna. the change from enc
polificsl party 20 the other. By resfFsin-
inR his owp followers and nakfng com
pAFatiEssY fe~ eb8nRes IN the ofHsss. /
s60aid tnink thas the pIaee Of al others.
wnere Clevelamd Feeeixed thanks. vas
u tie Treasury Dapartmeut- Mr.. Man
ul10 made fen changes there Of hsads
O divfssors. but IN the main the elsFieal
f0fos reEaatns uudissaFbsd- AZ that
spss the Civil Service Law has taken root
more than eisswheFe tn the G0vegnment.
As refornar tn bis own family staff
there has oesn bat little Of that fndig-
natioB absut Mr.. Cleveland which even
Grants Administration showed, - IN
the case OF General Belknsp. Belknap
w8s guilty nsthinR bat tie failure TO
Discipline his wives, Who bad been d.
g1dtnR the profits Of "a army euflsr.
AZ sse Of these wives was dead ana had
al Der life been an invalid, and 81 the
ether was bride With the fresh IN
haence OF her nnptiais upon the Score
tary. aHd as one Of these wives had IN
her1ted from Der deceased sister this
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ct least raom for liberation; bat Grant
accepted the resignation uFompsly which
Bslknap had the sebsibiiity 10 present.
10 Mr.. Gariand's case there was an s.
tempt TO live on the property Of other
persons, who derived their title from the
Government, By the lowest sort Of jerry
mydiddlinR. and nearly every party IN
the swindle vas q Government ehsrse
- -
authority hes never been directed upon
whose peculiar thrift has been exposed
IN nearly every newspaper Of his own
party throughout the land. Because be
has been exposed the President s1st ins
him; be IL not brave enough 10 admit
that be made mistake 10 the selection.
Instead Of turning cat bis peculatiye
officer be
DEcLAINs AGAINST THE PUBLIC PRESS.
spprshend that very few men could
sfav on the pablie pres who bad been
10 GarlaRd's telephone job. Generally
speaking. the newspaper press looks 20
the character and acts of its employees
and responsible men. Nov and then
some f0Eger 10 allowed to besmiFch the
craft through q general conviction Of
bis responsibility aud by the aid of
some great magwump, bat Mr.. Garland
could not keep bis place on the news
papers and be abetting his bogus tele-
phone company. Mr.. Cleveland, in re-
tanning him, has shown a less sense Of
responsibility and the fitness of things
than almost any important newspaper
publisher in this country.
IL IL tFae that the United States,
through its highly organized society and
industry, IL making it's usual progress
at the present time, and u Is also appa-
rent that the President OF our day is
doing something TO compel bis political
friends t. be modest about taking his
patronage. | can see, however, no
greater security for the continuance Of
the OWL Service institution than the
fact that there are several Commission
ers Who have reoentlv applied for az in
crease Of salary. Here is something
tangible; nothing Is worth anything
which does not give support to the
beneficiary. II the Civil Service re-
form can be made self sustaining in
some way not foreign to our views, il
may maintain itself against the poll
ticians. Fer instance, IN the past the
| Government clerks made contributions
30 the political campaign funds; there
Is no reason Why they should not con-
| tribute the same amounts to maintain
the Civil Service establishment. They
would have it In their power to elect
members Of Congress here and there. 81
| defeat obnoxious members. II the Re
| publioans should come into office in two
/ years more, there is the
BARE POSSIBILITY
or their tying themselves 10 in q Civil
| Service platform. Indeed, the few
strong pariisans Of this reform expect
10 uphold il by successive attacks upon
the tws political parties. II they coul
get certain Republicans on the ticket
they would support them as against GER
tain other Democrats. Bat not under.
standing the genius of oar public. the
muRwumps will soon discover that they
do not hold in hand their late iudepen-
/ dent ieviea. for the ost Of these have
already gone into the Democratic party,
there TO remain. Ia the last election 10
the State of New York for Governor all
| the mugwump organs undertook to de.
feat Mr.. Hill. bat be was elected by
considerably more majority than Cleve-
land received. and the reason was
that the muRAumps had been Dems
Gratis.
am told that the mggwRmps would
vote for any Democrat whatever against
Republican candidate, excepting, pos
sibly, Ben Batter. II this be the case.
the Civil Service Reform bill has lost its
own party, and the reformers have
merely turned over certain body Of
men from one political party TO an
other, and both parties, 10 their public
spirit, are against this reform. Indeed,
there has never beea In my time much
severity ia the distribution OF patron
age. Before the Republicans lost Elk
eeutive power they assented 10 the ap-
pointment of hosts Of Democrats to the
Depart nents. Every Southern Senator
knows this well enough. Men like
Ransom, CoekFsll and Batter had only
- go 10 certain Republican colleagues
and ask for the favor Of an appoint
ment TO have it made. Il was said at
Washington City az the time Of the last
election that II Blaine bad become
President he would have made more
changes in the Departments than any
Democrat would have done. GArn.